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Joniece Abbott-Pratt is an American actor and audiobook narrator. Her narrations have won her 14 Earphones Awards from AudioFile. Along with co-narrators, she also won the 2022 Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections for Blackout.[1][2]
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Joniece Abbott-Pratt | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Iowa |
Notable awards | Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections (2022) |
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Abbott-Pratt was raised in Philadelphia.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree at Clark Atlanta University,[4] and a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Iowa.[5][6] While at Iowa she appeared in a 2004 hip-hop adaptation of the Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes,[7] and in a 2005 production of Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood, directed by Tisch Jones.[8]
Abbott-Pratt has performed in numerous regional theater productions,[9][10] as well as on television shows.[5] In 2002, she was a teen actress in Kia Corthron's Breath, Boom in Atlanta.[11] In 2009, she co-starred in Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro in Hartford and New York.[12] In 2013 she co-starred in a production of Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly in Philadelphia.[13] In 2014 she appeared in Marcus Gardley's The House that Will Not Stand in New Haven.[14] She has appeared in several plays by August Wilson, including Gem of the Ocean with Novella Nelson and Stephen Tyrone Williams in Hartford in 2011,[15] and Seven Guitars in Louisville in 2015.[16] Also in 2015, she co-starred with Keith Randolph Smith in Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby,[17] and with Royce Johnson in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop.[18] In 2019 she starred in Too Heavy for Your Pocket, a drama about the Freedom Riders by Jireh Breon Holder, at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey.[19]
Abbott-Pratt is an adjunct instructor in drama at New York University.[20]
Abbott-Pratt was named "Best Emerging Actress" in 2003, by the Atlanta Constitution.[21] In 2020, AudioFile included Abbott-Pratt's narration of Jordan Ifueko's Raybearer on their list of the best young adult audiobooks of the year,[22] and in 2021, they included her narration of Ifueko's Redemptor on their list of the best young adult audiobooks of the year.[23]
In 2022, AudioFile and Literary Hub named Abbott-Pratt's narration of Nightcrawling among the best fiction audiobooks of the year.[24][25]
Year | Title | Author | Other narrator(s) | Ref. |
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2019 | The Beginning of Everything | Kristen Ashley | Liz Thompson, Dina Pearlman, Stella Bloom, Esther Wane, Gemma Dawson, Robin Miles, Clara Francesca, Lance Greenfield, Jakobi Diem, Ralph Lister, John Hartley, Rupert Channing, and Sarah Coomes | [26] |
2019 | Lady Tigers in the Concrete Jungle: How Softball and Sisterhood Saved Lives in the South Bronx | Dibs Baer | [50] | |
Like Sisters on the Homefront | Rita Williams-Garcia | [51] | ||
One Night in Georgia | Celeste O. Norfleet | [52] | ||
2020 | All the Things We Never Knew | Liara Tamani | Preston Butler III | [53] |
Burn | Patrick Ness | [54] | ||
Grown | Tiffany D. Jackson | [27] | ||
Legendborn | Tracy Deonn | [32] | ||
The Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson | Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Ines del Castillo, and Vikas Adam | [28] | |
Raybearer | Jordan Ifueko | [30] | ||
The Office of Historical Corrections | Danielle Evans | Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pressley, Shayna Small, January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo, and Janina Edwards | [55] | |
The Wrong Mr. Darcy | Evelyn Lozada and Holly Lorincz | [56] | ||
2021 | Blackout | Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Dion Graham, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J Beckles, and Bahni Turpin | [1] |
Caul Baby | Morgan Jerkins | [57] | ||
For All Time | Shanna Miles | Landon Woodson | [31] | |
How It Ends | Rachel Howzell Hall | [1] | ||
The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris | Aja Naomi King, Heather Alicia Simms, and Bahni Turpin | [58] | |
Redemptor | Jordan Ifueko | [35] | ||
Revival Season | Monica West | [36] | ||
Together We Will Go | J. Michael Straczynski | Dan Bittner, Neo Cihi, Michael Crouch, Samantha Desz, Kyla Garcia, Jonathan Todd Ross, Fred Sanders, Tara Sands, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Kevin R. Free, and Aden Hakimi | [37] | |
2022 | Because Claudette | Tracey Baptiste | [59] | |
Blood Like Fate | Liselle Sambury | [60] | ||
Bloodmarked | Tracy Deonn | [38] | ||
Love Radio | Ebony LaDelle | JaQwan J. Kelly | [45] | |
Nightcrawling | Leila Mottley | [41] | ||
Quantum Girl Theory | Erin Kate Ryan | Saskia Maarleveld and P. J. Ochlan | [61] | |
The Sex Lives of African Women | Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah | Iesha Nyree, Adenrele Ojo, Deanna Anthony, Stephanie Weeks, Joy Hooper, Lisa Reneé Pitts, Karen Murray, Janina Edwards, M. J. Brown, and Karla Mosley | [45] | |
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Sidik Fofana | Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofana, Dominic Hoffman, DePre Owens, André Santana, Bahni Turpin, and Jade Wheeler | [43] | |
Whiteout | Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Danielle Shemaiah, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bahni Turpin, Alaska Jackson, Kevin R. Free, James Fouhey, and Korey Jackson | [44] | |
Yonder | Jabari Asim | Lamarr Gulley, JD Jackson, Adam Lazarre-White, Imani Jade Powers, and Janina Edwards | [62] | |
2023 | Blood Debts | Terry J. Benton-Walker | Zeno Robinson, Bahni Turpin, and Torian Brackett | [63] |
The Davenports | Krystal Marquis | [64] | ||
The House is on Fire | Rachel Beanland | Andi Arndt, Michael Crouch, and Ruffin Prentiss III | [65] | |
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English | Valerie Fridland | Valerie Fridland, Keylor Leigh, Andrew Eiden, Christopher Ryan Grant, Ellen Archer, Eileen Stevens, and Nicky Endres | [66] | |
Lone Women | Victor LaValle | [67] | ||
The New Earth | Jess Row | Jim Meskimen, Jaime Lamchick, Jason Culp, Robin Miles, Ron Butler, Inés del Castillo, Gary Tiedemann, Sheldon Romero, Josh Bloomberg, Aylam Orian, and Vaneh Assadourian | [47] | |
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophesy | Angie Thomas | [48] |
Year | Title | Media | Role | Notes |
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2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | Film | College Student #3 | |
2013 | Grand Theft Auto V | Video game | Local Population (voice) | |
2015 | American Odyssey | TV | Margaret | 1 episode |
2015 | Orange Is the New Black | TV | Ultrasound technician | 1 episode |
2015 | Show Me A Hero | TV | Woman | 2 episodes |
2016 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | TV |
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2 episodes |
2017 | Blindspot | TV | Charly Evon | 1 episode |
2018 | Instinct | TV | Ashley | 1 episode |
2016-2018 | Luke Cage | TV | Etta Lucas | 2 episodes |
2019 | The Good Fight | TV | Monique Cromley | 1 episode |
2020 | FBI: Most Wanted | TV | Michelle Carter | 1 episode |
2020 | The Annex | TV | Joniece | |
2021 | Evil | TV | Ashley | 1 episode |
2022 | Dynasty | TV | Nurse Julia | 1 episode |
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